Historian unveils revelatory new theory about Sutton Hoo burials

The most famous artefact from the Sutton Hoo burial mounds was a helmet, discovered broken into 100 pieces - (Getty)

For decades, it was thought those interred at the Anglo-Saxon burial mounds of Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, were lavish Kings buried with their riches.

But a leading Anglo-Saxon expert has now suggested it might have been the grave of British soldiers who fought for the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century AD.